Hacker News with Generative AI: OpenAI

OpenAI: Scaling PostgreSQL to the Next Level (pixelstech.net)
At the PGConf.dev 2025 Global Developer Conference, Bohan Zhang from OpenAI shared OpenAI’s best practices with PostgreSQL, offering a glimpse into the database usage of one of the most prominent unicorn companies.
Database Management, PostgreSQL, AI Companies, OpenAI
28 points by thunderbong 1 hour ago | 1 comments
Google faces a dilemma: improve Google Search or go beyond it? (eshumarneedi.com)
At last year’s I/O developer conference, Google played catch-up to OpenAI after being caught off-guard by the Silicon Valley start-up’s breakthrough ChatGPT artificial intelligence chatbot, first launched in the fall of 2022.
Google, Search Engines, Artificial Intelligence, OpenAI, ChatGPT
8 points by freediver 10 hours ago | 0 comments
How I used o3 to find a remote 0-day vulnerability in the Linux kernel (ksmbd) (heelan.io)
In this post I’ll show you how I found a zeroday vulnerability in the Linux kernel using OpenAI’s o3 model. I found the vulnerability with nothing more complicated than the o3 API – no scaffolding, no agentic frameworks, no tool use.
Security, Linux Kernel, AI, OpenAI, Zero-Day Vulnerability
13 points by seanheelan 1 day ago | 3 comments
OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive (bloomberg.com)
OpenAI is buying an AI device startup co-founded by Apple veteran designer Jony Ive in a nearly $6.5 billion all-stock deal.
OpenAI, Artificial Intelligence, Acquisitions, Startups, Business
810 points by minimaxir 2 days ago | 1103 comments
OpenAI co-founder wanted to build doomsday bunker to protect company scientists (nypost.com)
The co-founder of ChatGPT maker OpenAI proposed building a doomsday bunker that would house the company’s top researchers in case of a “rapture” triggered by the release of a new form of artificial intelligence that could surpass the cognitive abilities of humans, according to a new book.
Artificial Intelligence, OpenAI, Technology, Science Fiction, Doomsday
6 points by Luc 3 days ago | 0 comments
OpenAI's planned data center in Abu Dhabi would be bigger than Monaco (techcrunch.com)
OpenAI is poised to help develop a staggering 5-gigawatt data center campus in Abu Dhabi, positioning the company as a primary anchor tenant in what could become one of the world’s largest AI infrastructure projects, according to a new Bloomberg report.
OpenAI, Artificial Intelligence, Data Centers, Abu Dhabi
16 points by rntn 5 days ago | 3 comments
Patience too cheap to meter (seangoedecke.com)
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, famously said that his goal was to make intelligence “too cheap to meter”. Right now, buoyed by venture capital, we’re living in that world. Every human (with internet access) on the planet has free access to language models that are smart enough to assist with a wide variety of problems. And people are using it! ChatGPT has more traffic than Wikipedia1.
Artificial Intelligence, OpenAI, Technology, ChatGPT
76 points by swah 6 days ago | 25 comments
ChatGPT Codex: The Missing Manual (latent.space)
ChatGPT Codex is here - the first cloud hosted Autonomous Software Engineer (A-SWE) from OpenAI. Josh Ma and Alexander Embiricos tell us how to WHAM every codebase like a power user.
Programming, Software Engineering, OpenAI
3 points by Brajeshwar 6 days ago | 0 comments
Vibe Check: Codex – OpenAI's New Coding Agent (every.to)
Last night I shipped a new feature for Cora, Every’s AI-enabled email assistant. Cora is not a vibe-coded product: Its codebase is a 5,500-plus commit cathedral of Rails craftsmanship mostly from Kieran Klaassen, Cora’s general manager, our resident DHH. Needless to say, exactly zero previous commits are mine.
OpenAI, Coding, Artificial Intelligence, Programming, Software
5 points by Philpax 7 days ago | 1 comments
"We're Definitely Going to Build a Bunker Before We Release AGI" (theatlantic.com)
In the summer of 2023, Ilya Sutskever, a co-founder and the chief scientist of OpenAI, was meeting with a group of new researchers at the company.
Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, OpenAI
30 points by mdp2021 8 days ago | 8 comments
An MCP-powered agent in 50 lines of code (huggingface.co)
Artificial Intelligence, Programming, OpenAI, Generative AI
5 points by victormustar 8 days ago | 0 comments
Y Combinator says Google is a monopolist, no comment about its OpenAI ties (techcrunch.com)
Fabled startup investor and accelerator Y Combinator has some choice words for Google in an amicus brief it just submitted in the U.S.’s monopoly case against the search giant.
Y Combinator, Google, Antitrust, Monopolies, OpenAI
126 points by mastazi 10 days ago | 42 comments
OpenAI's Stargate project struggling to get off the ground, due to tariffs (techcrunch.com)
OpenAI’s ambitious Stargate data center project is facing delays thanks to tariff-related economic uncertainty, reports Bloomberg.
OpenAI, Data Centers, Tariffs, Technology, Business
99 points by speckx 10 days ago | 170 comments
Show HN: Airweave – Let agents search any app (github.com/airweave-ai)
Airweave is a tool that lets agents semantically search any app. It's MCP compatible and seamlessly connects any app, database, or API, to transform their contents into agent-ready knowledge.
AI, Search, Agents, OpenAI
176 points by lennertjansen 11 days ago | 40 comments
Python lib generates its code on-the-fly based on usage (github.com/cofob)
AutoGenLib is a Python library that automatically generates code on-the-fly using OpenAI's API.
Python, Code Generation, Artificial Intelligence, OpenAI
247 points by klntsky 11 days ago | 88 comments
OpenAI negotiates with Microsoft to unlock new funding and future IPO (ft.com)
OpenAI, Microsoft, Funding, IPO, Business
13 points by Alezz 12 days ago | 1 comments
Sam Altman Wants Your Eyeball (privacyguides.org)
Last week, OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman announced in San Francisco that the World project he co-founded, formerly known as Worldcoin, is opening six stores across the United States, allowing users of the project's app to scan their eyeballs.
Privacy, Biometrics, OpenAI, Cryptocurrency, Technology
153 points by ChiptuneIsCool 13 days ago | 161 comments
Show HN: Code Claude Code (github.com/RVCA212)
A Python SDK for interacting with the Claude CLI tool.
Python, OpenAI, AI, Software
117 points by sean_ 13 days ago | 25 comments
Breaking Down Claude's 26k+ Token System Prompt (dbreunig.com)
A couple days ago, Ásgeir Thor Johnson convinced Claude to give up its system prompt. The prompt is a good reminder that chatbots are more than just their model. They’re tools and instructions that accrue and are honed, through user feedback and design.
AI, Chatbots, OpenAI
9 points by dbreunig 15 days ago | 0 comments
OpenAI Launches GitHub "Connector" for ChatGPT Deep Research (neowin.net)
OpenAI has introduced a new feature for its ChatGPT deep research tool: a connector that allows it to access and analyze content directly from a user's GitHub repositories.
OpenAI, ChatGPT, GitHub, Software
5 points by bundie 15 days ago | 0 comments
Altman testifies that OpenAI will release an Open Source model this Summer (youtube.com)
OpenAI, Artificial Intelligence, Open Source
23 points by jawiggins 15 days ago | 10 comments
Show HN: An AI-first visual editor using GPT-4o's GPT-image-1 model (img.ly)
We embedded OpenAI’s gpt-image-1 API into our CreativeEditor SDK, enabling users to generate and refine images directly in their creative workflow—no tool switching. This brings multimodal AI into real-world design tasks with seamless prompting, editing, and visual iteration.
Generative AI, Artificial Intelligence, Software, Design, OpenAI
23 points by buss_jan 15 days ago | 8 comments
OpenAI plans to cut Microsoft revenue share after restructuring (yahoo.com)
OpenAI has told investors it will share a smaller fraction of revenue with major backer Microsoft (MSFT) as it moves ahead with its restructuring, The Information reported on Tuesday.
OpenAI, Microsoft, Business, Revenue Sharing, Restructuring
4 points by cik 16 days ago | 0 comments
Show HN: Agents.erl (AI Agents in Erlang) (github.com/arthurcolle)
A comprehensive, distributed Erlang framework for OpenAI API integration with built-in supervision trees, dynamic API client generation, and tool execution.
Artificial Intelligence, Programming, Erlang, OpenAI
33 points by arthurcolle 16 days ago | 27 comments
OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for $3B (bloomberg.com)
OpenAI has agreed to buy Windsurf, an artificial intelligence-assisted coding tool formerly known as Codeium, for about $3 billion, according to people familiar with the matter, marking the ChatGPT maker’s largest acquisition to date.
Artificial Intelligence, Acquisitions, OpenAI, Technology, Business
667 points by swyx 17 days ago | 572 comments
OpenAI scraps controversial plan to become for-profit after mounting pressure (arstechnica.com)
On Monday, ChatGPT-maker OpenAI announced it will remain under the control of its founding nonprofit board, scrapping its controversial plan to split off its commercial operations as a for-profit company after mounting pressure from critics.
OpenAI, Non-Profit Organizations, Artificial Intelligence, Business
5 points by jnord 18 days ago | 0 comments
OpenAI to remain under non-profit control in change of restructuring plans (cnn.com)
OpenAI, Non-Profit Organizations, Artificial Intelligence, Business, Restructuring
6 points by greenburger 18 days ago | 0 comments
OpenAI says nonprofit will retain control of company (cnbc.com)
OpenAI, Nonprofit Organizations, Artificial Intelligence, Business, Technology
5 points by mfiguiere 18 days ago | 0 comments
The end of an AI that shocked the world: OpenAI retires GPT-4 (arstechnica.com)
One of the most influential—and by some counts, notorious—AI models yet released will soon fade into history.
Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, OpenAI
17 points by pseudolus 21 days ago | 4 comments
AGI Is Not a Milestone (aisnakeoil.com)
With the release of OpenAI’s latest model o3, there is renewed debate about whether Artificial General Intelligence has already been achieved.
Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, OpenAI
36 points by steebo 22 days ago | 10 comments